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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

Did I just win?

950

2

Google supercharges machine learning tasks with TPU custom chip

823

3

WebKit is now 100% ES6 complete

755

4

Chrome removes Backspace to go back

690

5

Fast.com: Netflix internet connection speed test

631

6

Horizon 1.0: a realtime, open-source JavaScript back end from RethinkDB

606

7

Reason: A new interface to OCaml

603

8

Online tracking: A 1-million-site measurement and analysis

592

9

577

10

Hidden Microphones Part of Government Surveillance Program in the Bay Area

573

Top Ask HN

1

What's the best tool you used to use that doesn't exist anymore?

331

2

Oldest code you have written that is still in use?

233

3

Who productively writes code on their smartphone? How?

97

4

What are some rite-of-passage style projects for programmers?

87

5

Do you spend more time coding or debugging?

84

6

How do you use Amazon Echo?

80

7

Is there a reasonable, actually integrated Web IDE out there?

49

8

Why does a pizza app know my location and 911 doesn't?

45

9

How long did it take you to get your first dev job?

41

10

What good books have you read in 2016?

38

Top Show HN

1

Kajero – Interactive JavaScript notebooks

217

2

I built an AI that recognizes food

202

3

Sharp11 – Music Theorization and Improvisation Engine

113

4

Neural Network Evolution Playground with Backprop NEAT

73

5

Neural Network Visualizer Classifying Handwriting – D3/Redux

64

6

Klart – Capture Anything (Pocket for Screenshots)

53

7

See what the internet thinks about any topic, based on Google queries

46

8

keysniffer – Linux kernel module to log pressed keys in debugfs

40

9

Tellform – An Open-Source Form Builder

29

10

LoadJS – A tiny async loader for modern browsers

25

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

Firefox tops Microsoft browser market share for first time

338

2

The TSA is a waste of money that doesn't save lives and might actually cost them

258

3

Autonomous corporation “The DAO” has become the biggest crowdfunded project

252

4

Stanford quantifies the privacy-stripping power of metadata

251

5

A Ukrainian Hacker Who Became the FBI’s Best Weapon and Worst Nightmare

228

6

Today's rich families in Florence were rich 700 years ago

202

7

Daydream Is Google’s Android-Powered VR Platform

183

8

Google veterans head off on their own to work on self-driving trucks

136

9

Bots Are Hot (1996)

121

10

Amazon will reportedly soon sell its own private-label groceries

120

News [?]

1

Tesla Announces $2B Public Offering to Accelerate Model 3 Ramp Up

401

2

Twitter to Stop Counting Photos and Links in 140-Character Limit

386

3

A professor built a chatbot to be his teaching assistant

382

4

Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway Takes $1B Position in Apple

358

5

Apple invests $1B in Chinese ride-hailing service Didi Chuxing

300

6

Theranos Voids Two Years of Edison Blood-Test Results

299

7

Warren Buffett and Dan Gilbert Unite in Bid to Acquire Yahoo

288

8

Stoned drivers are safer than drunk ones, new federal data show

251

9

The slow death of purposeless walking (2014)

229

10

An Old Idea, Revived: Starve Cancer to Death

212

Scientific publications [?]

1

Engineer and Investor in Spat About Wireless Charging Startup UBeam

160

2

IBM scientists achieve storage memory breakthrough

121

3

TrackMania is NP-complete

77

4

Darwinian medicine and the ‘hygiene’ or ‘old friends’ hypothesis

55

5

Europa's Ocean May Have an Earthlike Chemical Balance

47

6

Using Neuro-Physiological Responses to Chill Music to Defeat Coercion Attacks

43

7

Unethical Research: How to Create a Malevolent Artificial Intelligence

36

8

Software search is not a science, even among scientists

16

9

Bejeweled, Candy Crush and Other Match-Three Games Are (NP-)Hard (2014)

14

10

New method of producing random numbers could improve cybersecurity

7

Dev Blogs [?]

1

Academics Make Theoretical Breakthrough in Random Number Generation

389

2

Linux 4.6 is out

228

3

Google Container-VM Image: A Container-Optimized OS Image Based on Chromium OS

92

4

76

5

Supergiant.io – Container Platform for Stateful Applications

61

6

Google BigQuery Crushes Amazon AWS EMR and Presto in Performance Comparisons

16

7

Open sourcing our NGINX HTTP/2 and SPDY code

15

8

FFmpeg Lands VA-API H.264 / H.265 / MJPEG Encoder Support

13

9

The Sleepy User Agent

10

10

LEDE and OpenWrt

10

Tech blogs [?]

1

EFF Fights for Answers About Massive Government Phone Database

92

2

Upgrading a 20 Year Old PDA

76

3

A BeagleBone on a Chip

60

4

Inside the IBM FlashSystem 900 All-Flash Array

34

5

Apple Confirms Music Deletion Glitch, Says Fix Incoming in Future iTunes Update

10

6

Why Kickstarter Products Fail

6

7

Microsoft Auto-Scheduling Windows 10 Updates

3

8

AnandTech iPhone SE review

3

9

Star Trek Material Science Is Finally Real: Transparent Wood

3

10

California's Legislature Wants to Copyright All Government Works

3

FAANG+ [?]

1

AWS X1 instances – 1.9 TB of memory

340

2

I love my Amazon Workspace

135

3

NET Core and ASP.NET Core RC2 Released

97

4

Service Discovery: An Amazon ECS Reference Architecture

55

5

X1 Instances for EC2 – Ready for Memory-Intensive Workloads

13

6

New AWS Community Heroes Announced

11

7

AWS Certificate Manager now available in more regions

3

8

I Love My Amazon WorkSpace

2

9

Apple Announces New iOS App Design and Development Accelerator in Bengaluru

2

10

Net Core RC2 shipped

2

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

A Small London Company That Makes Beautiful Globes

232

2

The brain is not a computer

131

3

Why Big Companies Can't Innovate

93

4

Why Your Late Twenties Is the Worst Time of Your Life

68

5

HTML5 by Default – Draft Proposal

66

6

The huge profits and profound suffering of the Manila Galleons

39

7

Brooklyn's Internet Bonsai Kingpin

33

8

Decriminalising sex work is better for everyone

26

9

How England's First Feline Show Countered Victorian Snobbery About Cats

25

10

I Love My Chicken Wire Mommy (2007)

21

Science News [?]

1

Magic Mushroom Drug Lifts Depression in Human Trial

223

2

Why Aging Isn’t Inevitable

219

3

Pilot-Wave Theory Gains Experimental Support

206

4

The creation of stainless steel

120

5

New Evidence for the Necessity of Loneliness

93

6

Evidence suggests that brain activity shifts to increase wisdom as we age

83

7

Study: Speaking Multiple Languages Staves Off Dementia

79

8

Medical research: If depression were cancer (2014)

69

9

Whiskey Can’t Hide Its Age

48

10

Computer glitch has led to incorrect advice on statins

32

Social [?]

1

Did I just win?

950

2

WebKit is now 100% ES6 complete

755

3

Why I don't spend time with Modern C++ anymore

276

4

“I made an app that orders delivery to a random location, and ubers you there”

261

5

Arrested by Undercover Officers After Trying to Sell His Laptop Online

210

6

42 comes to Silicon Valley: free, non profit coding university

59

7

[video] 4 Cold Email Subject Lines That Got InspireBeats to $4m in Revenue

30

8

I wrote a script that listens to meetings I'm supposed to be paying attention to

27

9

Paul Graham on Uber and Lift Ban in Austin

25

10

Why I don't spend time with Modern C++ anymore

23

Github repos and gists [?]

1

A cool way to use natural language in JavaScript

517

2

A language that compiles to Bash and Windows Batch

392

3

Setting Up a Deep Learning Machine from Scratch

324

4

More contributions on your profile

240

5

Visual profiler for Python

213

6

Push.js – A minimalist JavaScript library for desktop notifications

122

7

React-Boilerplate v3: The “JS Fatigue Antivenin” Edition

112

8

GCHQ's Boiling Frogs paper on software development

111

9

109

10

Pillow-SIMD: improving the performance of image processing

108

Wikipedia [?]

1

186

2

Shamir's Secret Sharing

66

3

Svalbard Global Seed Vault

63

4

Linguistic purism in English

43

5

24

6

Curse of dimensionality

4

7

Equestrian Statue of the Duke of Wellington, Glasgow

3

8

Pick chart by Lockheed-Martin

3

9

The Southern Television broadcast interruption

3

10

3

Blogs [?]

1

That'll do, pig, that'll do

409

2

Keep your identity small (2009)

184

3

Regular expressions you can read: a visual syntax and UI

172

4

Investigating Erlang by reading its system calls

159

5

Folding Paper with a Hydraulic Press

144

6

The Road to Artificial Intelligence

116

7

Thoughts on the future of Python and graphical interfaces

103

8

Pittsburgh as a Startup

99

9

10 thousand times faster Swift

92

10

The death of the web design agency

62

Stackoverflow [?]

1

Reordering of reads in Java

8

2

Selenium Automation: Accessing Elements in the Shadow DOM

4

3

Why is the standard session lifetime 24 minutes (1440 seconds)?

3

4

Automatically created variables from ids in JS? (2015)

2

5

Why is char[] preferred over String for passwords in Java?

2

6

What does “0 but true” mean in Perl?

2

7

How Random is System.Guid.NewGuid()? (2009)

1

Substack [?]